MBB: Coast 2 Coast Athletic Conference

[Greek Tragedy]

Be sure to head over to the Multi-Regional Topics Board and select your team for the new Survivor Pool! 

You might actually win something! 
Deadline is Friday before the first game's tipoff

[bisonpride]

Tonight's season opening at 6pm, Gallaudet Bison will play against Waynesburg College in Hampton Inn Coaches vs Cancer Tip-Off at Mt. Aloysius College. After that, at 8pm, host Mt. Aloysius will play against Franciscan University (Ohio).

Let's Play Ball once again. Good Luck to all CAC teams tonight and upcoming week.

[mwcsid]

Mary Wash 64
Southwestern TX 50

LEXINGTON, VA - Junior guard Justin Baker scored 22 points and added ten rebounds, both game highs, as the University of Mary Washington men's basketball team opened the 2005-06 season with a big 64-50 win over Southwestern (TX) University on Friday evening in the Washington & Lee University Tipoff Tournament. Southwestern was ranked #13 in the nation by DIII News in its preseason poll, and received 93 votes in the D3Hoops preseason poll. The Eagles also got 15 points from junior guard A.J. Fitzgerald and 13 points from Mike Lee.
For the game, UMW held Southwestern to just 33.3% shooting from the floor, and their All-American guard, Aaron Bowser, to just 5-20 shooting. Fitzgerald also added seven rebounds and five assists for UMW.
The Eagles will face the winner of Friday's second game between W&L and Manhattanville on Saturday at 8 pm in the tournament championship.

BOX, PLAY-BY-PLAY:
http://athletics.umw.edu/mbk/0506/umwmb-01.htm

[eaglefan]

 Just figuring this out.  Nice job EAGLES! 

[eaglefan]

 Just figuring this out.  Nice job EAGLES!!  and Clint!!!  Understand Catholic is a force to be reckonned with with this year.  Go CAC!

[Matt Letourneau]

Game 1 of the Hampton Inn Classic at UMass Dartmouth

#25 Catholic 72 Salve Regina 55


Catholic will play the winner of UMass-Dartmouth and Maine-Fort Kent tomorrow.

Haven't seen a box score yet to see who did what.

MLB: Actually, Salve Regina was 16-10 last year.

[ycp]

Final from Dickinson Pizza Hut Tip Off Tournament
York 74-DeSales 60

Chad McGowan has a game-high 26 points while Kenny Fass adds 12. McGowan, Fass, and Brian Singer lead York with five boards each. The Spartans go 9-for-16 from three including Joe Yeck recording a perfect 3-for-3 night from downtown.
York faces Dickinson in the championship game on Saturday.

[bbald eagle]

Fredericksburg Free Lance Star preseason story on UMW:

http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2005/112005/11182005/146777

"The men's team is facing several hurdles in its quest to post a winning season, including inexperienced post players and installing a new offense in a short period of time."

[bisonpride]

Result from Mount Aloysius College..

Gallaudet - 89
Waynesburg - 95
Halftime: 45-37, Waynesburg

Haney, Jr- 35 points (8-10 FT), 13 rebounds (11 offensive).
F. Jackson had 23 points (9-14 FG), 8 rebounds. Along with other two double digits in scoring.

Key for Waynesburg's winning was over 60% FG in whole game and almost perfect free-throw by shooting, 19-21. Gallaudet had a bad start, they were behind 20-9 then came back but was down by 8 at half. They was also down by 18 at one point in second half and almost came back. Only thing that stop us from came back is the game clock.

Gallaudet will play against Franciscan University at Coaches vs Cancer Tip-Off today.

[Matt Letourneau]

Catholic plays UMass-Dartmouth today at 3 in the final of the Hampton Inn tournament.

CUA fans who want to listen to the game live can do so here:

http://www.umassd.edu/sports/mensbasketball/0506/hamptoncover.cfm

[VJC SID]

Scores from Pride of MD Tournament on Friday.

From JHU

McDaniel 72
Frostburg 69

JHU 76
Salisbury 61

From Goucher

Washington 90
Hood 81

Villa Julie 73
Goucher 68

[VJC SID]

Pride of MD Tournament Day 2

Hood 71
Goucher 59

[Matt Letourneau]

Catholic 75   UMass Dartmouth 58

Shane Sowden led the way with 17 points.  Catholic led 51-27 at the half and got a chance to play some of the new guys.

CUA wins the Hampton Inn Classic.  Next up is Haverford on Tuesday night, and then a good challenge against Scranton on Saturday.

[mwcsid]

Matty L...
In midseason posting form already.
Thanks, brother.

[mlb]

Actually a nice game for the CUA team.  They got the chance to play a lot of players, but Howes' standard rotation will be 10 deep this year.

The team struggled last night against Salve-Regina.  They were a very physical team and CUA seemed a bit flat.  They couldn't get past the 10 point lead mark until there were about 12 minutes left in the game.

Tonight, against a much better UMD team, CUA came out and just out played them.  UMD lost their number one player last night (Chris Lappiore) to a knee injury.  Couldn't tell how bad it really was, but wouldn't be surprised if it was a season ending ACL.  UMD was clearly affected, but I am not sure that it would have made a difference.

CUA was up by 30 and then the game got sloppy.  The officials kind of swallowed their whistles and I thought some players were going to get hurt.  The 17 point win is a little misleading.

Good guard play both nights.  Tonight they had 31 baskets on 27 assists.  The team is playing really well together for this early in the season and their defense was great.

It should be a good year to watch CUA basketball for those who are fans.  Shane Sowden is a very talented player who could stand out if he chose to.  He chooses to share the spotlight with a lot of very good players.

All in all, it was a good opening weekend for the Cardinals.